That reminds me of an old (and highly illegal at the time) Soviet joke: it’s 1917, the Russian revolution is getting into its full swing. An old man is lying on a couch reading a newspaper. His grandson runs into a room, and excitedly proclaims: “Grandfather, Bolsheviks have seized the means of production, and there will be no rich people anymore”. To which the old man replies: “Funny, the revolutionaries of my generation fought so there’d be no _poor_ people anymore”.